Johnny Ray Huston's top 10 of 2005

1. Sublime: The title character in Odete (Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal) roller-skating into view to the sound of Andy Williams's "Both Sides Now"

2. Cathy Begien's Blackout, Sarah Enid Hagey's Doll Face and The Great Unknown, everything by David Enos, Jose Rodriguez's Fresh and Death and Illusions of the Divine, and tons o' other movies at Edinburgh Castle Film Night

3. Eat the rich: Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, USA)

4. Better yet, terrorize them: Hidden (Caché) (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy)

5. Polymorphously perverse kids rule: Owen Kline in The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, USA), Brandon Ratcliffe in Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, USA)

6. Overlooked great performances: Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, USA/Netherlands), Dina Korzun in Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs, USA), Yagira Yuya in Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)

7. They had US theatrical releases this year, just not in SF – so, how about in 2006?: A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden/Denmark), Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, France), Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea), Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, Uruguay/Argentina/Germany/Spain)

8. Oh, you wonderful women: Estamira in Estamira (Marcos Prado, Brazil), Kim Ji-soo in This Charming Girl (Lee Yoon-ki, South Korea)

9. Oh, you beautiful boys: Gonzalo Heredia in Ronda Nocturna (Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentina), Mahasamut Boonyaruk in Citizen Dog (Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand)

10. Distributor, please!: This Charming Girl, Citizen Dog